Psalm 6
Lord, why must the world
suffer? why must we
suffer? why must I? self-
centered questions but fair
for it doesn’t seem right
that in a cosmos of choice
if ruled over by you
that suffering should be so
intense or exist at all—why
is this so? well, of course
there’s choice, and it is
ours; it has to be
since we are not puppets
of the divine but must
make choices that matter
and so choice itself must
matter—with real form
and consequence
or else this is a game
and God must be a sadist
and it is not
and God is not
we have an open life
with liberty to choose
(and if not, then not: that is
the consequence
of the power lent the world—it
can be wondrous or horror-filled)
and that’s it, I guess: suffering
is real because it has to be
clcouch123 
November 10, 2015 at 11:10 pm
I often wonder why we have to suffer too. I agree free will has something to do with it. Also, I think we know suffering because he suffered too for us.
November 12, 2015 at 4:58 pm
I think you’re right. The Old Testament prophets claimed that our savior would have suffer for our sake. And that’s what needed to happen, I guess, no matter how tragically.
November 12, 2015 at 7:03 pm
It’s what makes sense too me, otherwise why?
November 13, 2015 at 7:07 pm
If Christ had to suffer and die, then it would have to have been for us. It still seems sad and awful–but, yes, necessary.